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Tuesday, September 1, 2009

Surprise party!

So we're having a surprise party on Friday. Not as in we are throwing a party that will surprise someone, in that it's a surprise that we are having a party on Friday! While going through paperwork to get things set for child sponsorship with Fritzie, we discovered her birthday is NOT October 4th as we've been told (even by her)... it's SEPTEMBER 4th. As in Friday. Jeepers.

And oh, here's another surprise. She is not 13, almost 14. She is 14, almost 15.

And she hasn't completed 3rd grade, she's completed 2nd grade.

So... there you go. Haiti is never as it appears.

Regardless of all that-- isn't she lovely?

She got her hair re-done to do. Well, actually she is still getting her hair redone. We're about 4 hours into it... Maybe another 1/2 to 1 hour left. I love this pic!

The short story.

We are a family of 14-- two parents, two bio kids, one child we adopted, eight foster kids, and one other kid in the process of adoption. We have been living in Jacmel, Haiti for
. We have made a long term commitment to live together as a family here in Haiti, as we raise these children to adulthood. This blog is the short story of our lives here.

Why We're Here

“Jesus’ whole life and mission involve accepting powerlessness and revealing in this powerlessness the limitlessness of God’s love. Here we see what compassion means. It is not bending toward the underprivileged from a privileged position; it is not a reaching out from on high to those who are less fortunate below; it is not a gesture of sympathy or pity for those who fail to make it in the upward pull. On the contrary, compassion means going directly to those people and places where suffering is most acute and building a home there.” - Henri Nouwen